Campaigns We Support

Last updated: December 2017

Campaigns We Support

We actively endorse a number of campaigns. We have worked closely with the campaigns below to provide support and research to help strenghen each overall message.

The Ethical Consumer team at the Lush Prize Awards 2015.

The Lush Prize

The Lush Prize is a collaboration between Ethical Consumer and Lush Cosmetics; a £350,000 annual fund to reward groups or individuals working in the field of cruelty-free scientific research, awareness raising and lobbying.

The Prize combines the research and campaigning skills of Ethical Consumer and the passion and resources of Lush staff and is the biggest prize in the non-animal testing sector. The Prize will continue until all animal testing has been replaced.

Lush Prize 2017

There were 18 winning projects and scientists from 38 countries, sharing £330,000 in prize money.

This year saw the first winner from Chile as well as winners from China and Japan, revealing how campaigns against animal testing, and alternatives to animal use, are now being taken up in countries without historical support for animal protection.

Stop Funding Hate

Stop Funding Hate is a groundbreaking campaign challenging the overt racist content of the Daily Express, Daily Mail and the Sun. The campaign targets companies who regularly advertise in these tabloids.

They are asking supporters to get in touch with companies on social media and put pressure on them to pull advertising with these papers. So far Lego, Body Shop, JOY and Evans Cycles have stopped advertising.

Our Research

Stop Funding Hate is now working with Ethical Consumer to achieve its strategic long-term goal of creating a publicly accessible database detailing where companies place their ads, which shoppers can then use when choosing who to shop with.

Lush Spring Prize

The Lush Spring Prize is a new collaborative project between Lush and Ethical Consumer. It awarded £200,000 to projects around the world that are working towards environmental and social regeneration.

11 projects from Brazil to Zimbabwe received, between them £200,00 to support their work on environmental and social regeneration. The winners demonstrate the variety of approaches that can be taken to create a more regenerative society: from restoring degraded landscapes to creating platforms that give a voice to marginalised communities.

Save Our Bank

Ethical Consumer and the Save Our Bank campaign launched a new crowdfunder to set up a Customer Union for Co-op bank customers. The target of £15,000 was smashed in just a few days and is currently at £24,683 with the campaigning running until 15 December 2015.

The aim of the campaign is to keep the co-op bank ethical and return it to mutual ownership at the earliest possible opportunity.

The three aimes for the Customer Union are:

Keeping and pushing forward the bank's ethical policies and campaigning

Building a strong customer voice in how the bank is run

Growiing a "co-operative stake" in the bank, and campaigning for its eventual return to majority co-operative ownership

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Palm Oil Campaign

Ethical Consumer and the Rainforest Foundation joined forces to respond to the threat facing the Congo rainforest. Palm oil is an ingredient used in thousands of products from chocolate to shampoo. However, the mass production of palm oil is devastating the world's rainforests.

The aim of the campaign is to encourage consumers to buy best rated products, forcing companies to use more sustainably sourced palm oil.

We have researched extensively into palm oil to highlight which products contain it and subsequently the best ways to avoid it.

Fashion Revolution Transparency Index

More transparency equals greater consumer and regulatory accountability in the supply chain.

As a result, to track the fashion industry’s problem in this area and progress over time, Fashion Revolution and Ethical Consumer have partnered to publish the first edition of their Fashion Transparency Index which includes 40 of the biggest global fashion brands and ranks companies according to the level of transparency in their supply chain.

Move Your Money Campaign

Move Your Money is a national campaign to help improve the banking system and ensure it works for us. With the help of Ethical Consumer's report into banks, this campaign has encouraged customers to ditch the top 5 big banks and switch to an ethical alternative.

In the past two years it has convinced over 2.4 million to move their money out of the big banks.

"Real change won’t come from Westminster or the boardroom, but from ordinary people putting their foot down and saying enough is enough." Laura Willoughby MBE, Move your Money